Greek pronunciation?
Mark H. Bahr
koine at ev1.net
Wed Oct 9 22:28:43 EDT 2002
> Another question, which I know would be hard to quantify, but how hard is
> it for a modern Greek to read the GNT? Is it to them (roughly) as
> Shakespeare is to us, or as Chaucer is to us, or as Beowulf is to us?
>
> Brian McCarthy
>
> Brian,
>
My roommate is a Greek (born in Thessolinica) and jovially gets on me about
my "seminary" pronunciation. Koine is quite understandable to the modern
Greek. My roommate has told me that his mother would occasionally break
into laughter as she read him the TR (although I'm a prefer NA27 myself) in
the evenings stating with a grin that "we don't talk like that anymore",
yet
it is quite understandable. One point of interest, the accent marks and
the
breathing marks have been eliminated in recent years by the governing
powers
of Greece.
Mark Bahr
The Criswell College
Dallas, TX
B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
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